Teaching Resources
Statistics
The items listed on this page are some examples of different activities that are available. We invite you to explore other activities from the websites listed on the websites (statistics) page.
Data talks are short 5-10 minute classroom discussions to help students develop data literacy. This pedagogical strategy is similar in structure to a number talk, but instead of numbers students are shown a data visual and asked what interests them.
MAV produced weekly home learning guides to assist teachers to support families with mathematics home learning during 2020. There are three learning levels: F – 2, 3 – 6, and 7 – 9.
The tasks are a mix of open-ended, rich tasks, challenging tasks and small investigations covering all mathematical content areas. Scroll through the activity sets to find tasks for statistics.
A framework for Statistics and Data Science education by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) 2020
F - 2 Activities
(Victorian Department of Education and Training)
Provides teaching content, resources and teaching ideas linked to the curriculum.
Different forms of glyphs are used in many medical situations to quickly record data about a patient in pictorial form. This activity encourages students to organise and analyse data in a pictorial form of data collection.
This activity from NRICH encourages students to make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.
This activity from NRICH allows students to explore the key idea of classification. This activity could be extended to explore two-way tables and Venn diagrams.
This activity from NZ Maths allows students to explore the key idea of data interpretation. Students are required to make interpretive statements about a series of graphs.
This resource was developed by the Australian Catholic University (ACU) for Catholic Education Melbourne as part of the Strategic Support Mathematics and the Contemporary Teaching and Learning (CTLM) professional learning program.
3 - 6 Activities
(Victorian Department of Education and Training)
Provides teaching content, resources and teaching ideas linked to the curriculum.
Students will examine how one data set can be represented in a variety of ways, it will get students talking meaningfully about data representation, presenting and justifying arguments.
This resource from AAMT Topdrawer explores the difference between categorical and numerical data.
This resource was developed by the Australian Catholic University (ACU) for Catholic Education Melbourne as part of the Strategic Support Mathematics and the Contemporary Teaching and Learning (CTLM) professional learning program.
